A Summer Holiday Reading List… #idealoreads
When Idealo asked me to a Summer Holiday Reading List, I jumped at the opportunity. Would I like a budget of £25 to create a pile of books to read? Are you MAD?? Simple. Well… sort of. Actually, by crikey it was hard. Narrowing it down, I mean. OBVIOUSLY it’s not hard choosing books. But making a perfect reading list for a holiday – and one you know is going to Go Public too – is harder than it first seemed. It...
The best colouring books for older children. And for BOYS!
My girl loves to draw/colour/paint/stick/sketch/design/embellish. So far so ordinary. But my 9yr old boy loves to draw too. But colouring books for older boys? They don’t exist. I have SEARCHED for ones that don’t contain bunnies and flowers and clowns. Not happening. So imagine my joy when I fell across Rosie Flo’s site. Genius it is – but not jst for boys. The whole Rose Flo range are the same. Why limit a...
Father’s Day Gifts – The Dad Journal
I really love this idea, and think it could be something very special. This isn’t just a diary for a Dad to write in – this is a ‘journal of a lifetime’, something for a Dad to write down his life story. Great for new Dads, but even greater for our own Dads, discovering the man behind the parent, recording all those stories and places that will one day be gone. Only recently I was looking at old photographs of...
50 Books Every Child Should Read
**we first posted this last May, but I’ve just come across it, exclaimed aloud a lot and resolved to post it again…* This is a very clipped part of the article, reproduced with kind permission from Richard Davies of AbeBooks – you can see the original article here. “Reading should be an essential part of any childhood. Teachers and schools can teach you many useful things (although I’ve not used calculus in my...
Fabulous Art Box Tin – mais oui!
I LOVE this little tin! Actually – it’s not so little; at over 20cm long it’s perfect for holding brushes as well as paints or piles of collage scraps or a gazillion colouring pencils or a family of Sylvanian Rabbits or the entire collection of hair bands/clips/ribbons… That’s the trouble with useful Pots to put things in. You never know what to put i them when you’re 5. I had this tin neatly placed...
Spotted! Playon Crayons – Perfect for Little Hands
Perfectly shaped for a little fist to wrap around whilst creating masterpieces and when their work is done much fun to be had with stacking them. Genius.